Transparent Conducting Oxides for Infrared Plasmonic Waveguides: ZnO (Preprint)

Abstract

Plasmonics combines attractive features of nanoelectronics and optics enabling highly integrated, subwavelength optical and electronic circuits. This review introduces different materials available for plasmonic waveguiding applications with an emphasis on highly conducting ZnO. In addition, the paper contains analysis of a set of thin Al-doped ZnO (AZO) layers grown by RF sputtering on quartz glass that employ a unique, 20-nm-thick, ZnON buffer layer, which minimizes the strong thickness dependence of mobility (micro) on thickness (d).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 15, 2014
Accession Number
ADA592226

Entities

People

  • Brett R Wenner
  • D. C. Look
  • Jeffery Allen
  • Monica Allen

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Detectors
  • Diffraction
  • Dispersion Relations
  • Electromagnetic Radiation
  • Geometry
  • Materials
  • Mobility
  • Optical Properties
  • Plasmonic Devices
  • Plasmonic Materials
  • Plasmonics
  • Scattering
  • Surface Plasmon Polaritons
  • Two Dimensional
  • Waveguides

Fields of Study

  • Materials science

Readers

  • Nanoscale Plasmonic Nanotechnology
  • Thin Film Deposition Science.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Graphene